Editors:
- Pairs comics criticism with a series of comics themselves, not only as artistic works, but as visual reflections on and engagement with the thematic concerns of the book
- Emphasizes the connections between the sub-fields of trauma, embodiment and reportage, first consolidating, and then intervening into and opening up topics that are of increasing critical concern in comics scholarship
- Incorporates a global engagement with comics production, including not only Anglophone and Francophone comics, but some published originally in languages such as German, Russian and Hebrew
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Documenting Trauma
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Traumatic Pasts
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Embodied Histories
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Front Matter
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Graphic Reportage
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About this book
Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationships with traumatic events? And how does comics’ documentation of traumatic pasts operate across national borders and in different cultural, political, and politicised contexts?
The sixteen chapters and three comics included in Documenting Trauma in Comics set out to answer exactly these questions. Drawing on a range of historically and geographically expansive examples, the contributors bring their different perspectives to bear on the tangled and often fraught intersections between trauma studies, comics studies, and theories of documentary practices and processes. The result is a collection that shows how comics is not simply related to trauma, but a generativeforce that has become central to its remembrance, documentation, and study.
Reviews
---Professor Harriet EH Earle, Sheffield Hallam University
“A necessary collection, both for its crucial global scope and for its contribution to how we think about trauma and images.”
--Professor Hillary Chute, Northeastern University
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of English, City, University of London, London, UK
Dominic Davies
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Department of English, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada
Candida Rifkind
About the editors
Dominic Davies is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London. He holds a DPhil and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oxford. He is the author and editor of several books, articles, and chapters, and his most recent monograph is Urban Comics: Infrastructure & the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (2019).
Candida Rifkind is a Professor in the Department of English, University of Winnipeg, Canada. In addition to over a dozen journal articles and book chapters in comics studies, she co-edited Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives (2016) and is co-editor of the Wilfrid Laurier UP book series Crossing Lines: Transcultural/Transnational Comics Studies.
Contributors
Haya Alfarhan, King's College London, UK
Ana Baeza Ruiz, University of Leeds, UK
Hillary Chute, Northeastern University, USA
Michael Goodrum, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Ian Hague, London College of Communication, UK
Alexandra Lloyd, University of Oxford, UK
Sarah McNicol, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Nina Mickwitz London College of Communication, UK
Bruce Mutard, Independent Artist, Australia
Katalin Orbán, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Emma Parker, University of Leeds, UK
Johannes C. P. Schmid, University of Hamburg, Germany
A. P. Payal, University of Delhi, India
Rituparna Sengupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Nicola Streeten, London College of Communication, UK
Eszter Szép, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
E. Dawson Varughese, Snr Fellow, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, India
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Documenting Trauma in Comics
Book Subtitle: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
Editors: Dominic Davies, Candida Rifkind
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37998-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37997-1Published: 22 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38000-7Published: 22 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37998-8Published: 21 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 345
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comics Studies, Popular Culture, Global/International Culture, Media and Communication, Contemporary Literature, Memory Studies